Yesterday's flight was a return trip, SCIP-CLT, on a 346.
Still trying to figure out what airport is close enough to Easter Island to have RJ service
Turning around for departure
Rocketing out of CIP
TailCam of Climb out
Watching the Sunset at FL370
TailCam of the Decent

Fantastic shots everyone. I won't around too much the next couple of days. My partner has just found out she's pregnant with our second child, so got a few things to sort out and do.
I will rejoin you in the virtual skies very soon!

Quoting gingersnap (Reply 7):Fantastic shots everyone. I won't around too much the next couple of days. My partner has just found out she's pregnant with our second child, so got a few things to sort out and do.
I will rejoin you in the virtual skies very soon!

Quoting WNWatcher (Reply 5):Still trying to figure out what airport is close enough to Easter Island to have RJ service

Gotta love the default traffic from Microsoft, errr, maybe not. Thats why I removed it from my setup and started my obsession with adding in realistic traffic into my sim.

I am finally leaving the Russian Far East and flying west towards Moscow, where I have spent a lot of time adding in adding in traffic to the skies. Today was a short flight of a little over 700 miles from the city of Chulman to Bratsk and my winged chariot, the Il-96 freeware model from Samdim.

An Air Yakutia B757-200w that has an afternoon flight from Chulman to to Moscow

Making my way to Rwy 8 for my departure

Waiting for arriving traffic, an Antonov An-24RV operated by Polar Airlines, last aircraft spotted for a while

View from the tower, needed almost all of the 11,762 foot runway for this take off! Next time, more flaps

Sun is rising on this Sunday morning, that was about as much sunlight I saw this day

133 miles to Bratsk and this is the first aircraft I saw in the sky, Incheon Int'l to London Stansted

Making my descent into Bratsk

Russian Air Force An-26 in operation, heading into Bratsk from Chita Cheremushki

The vast Bratsk Reservoir in the background, Wikipedia says it is 2,110 sq miles in size!

Making my visual approach into Bratsk

View from the cockpit

In a hurry to slow down!

The AeroBratsk Yak-40 looks so small compared to the Il-96

Looks like there is construction going on at the airport

Time to see if there is a bar at the airport that has the Super Bowl on.

Quoting gingersnap (Reply 7):Fantastic shots everyone. I won't around too much the next couple of days. My partner has just found out she's pregnant with our second chil

Congrats indeed!

Quoting csturdiv (Reply 9): Thats why I removed it from my setup and started my obsession with adding in realistic traffic into my sim.

I had My Traffic X for a while, but I didn't reinstall it. Didn't really like it that much. I'm hoping maybe someone will come up with a way of configuring FSX so it'll show up actual real airline/aircraft traffic that is actually flying around.

So if the SQ241 does a go-around due to "not stabilised", you'd see that in the sim too. That'd be awesome. Though even just real world schedules that are up to date would be fantastic. So when I go to Sydney, I won't see 3 or 4 QF A380s parked side by side at the gates, I'll just see the 1 QF A380, with maybe one other one parked at the jetbase.

And if I'm waiting at around 4:45pm, I'll see "Qantas 31 Super" takeoff, followed by "Speedbird 10 Heavy", and at 7:40pm, I'll see EK's "super" arrive from New Zealand, etc.

Quoting cpd (Reply 10):I had My Traffic X for a while, but I didn't reinstall it. Didn't really like it that much. I'm hoping maybe someone will come up with a way of configuring FSX so it'll show up actual real airline/aircraft traffic that is actually flying around

That would be a beast of a system to pull that off, and maybe quite expensive. Back whenI used Ultimate Traffic, they did two updates a year, usually Spring and Fall if I remember right. Now I do my traffic all by hand, using TTools or MRAI to install my plans, with an occasional World of AI package here and there.

Quoting gingersnap (Reply 7):Fantastic shots everyone. I won't around too much the next couple of days. My partner has just found out she's pregnant with our second child, so got a few things to sort out and do.
I will rejoin you in the virtual skies very soon!

Long time ago in Goose Bay, Canada
Delta run to Bozeman,MT
Guys, hurry up, time to push back!
Procedure turn, direct BZN Vor right after the take off from KBZN/Bozeman,MT/
Up close and personal! United A320 heading towards Denver,Colorado! GS 560knts! 120knts tail wind!
Enjoy!

Quoting aerdingus (Reply 4): Ya know...puttin a train livery on a plane is the stuff most geeks dream of...hats off to the airline!

Yeah, I know - pretty neat of TuiFly to do that! And make quite a few dollars at the same time advertising the Deutsche Bahn. Honestly though, ICE's need no advertising - compared to the rubbish old belching smokey XPT trains over here in Australia (they are a derivate of British HST Class 43), the ICE's are beautiful modern, sleek machines. Even the old ICE1 is amazing compared to the belching old beasts we have. Ours still have the Paxman Valenta engines too...

I remember that Krupp bidded on one of the Australian HST projects - would have offered track and ICE, but they lost out to TGV's consortium. Which ended up going nowhere at all. We have no other choice than to fly from city to city, the trains are far too slow. Often they do no better than 130km/h. It's a crying shame.

Quoting MIAspotter (Reply 12):Nice! you are showing us all those unexplored remote Russian towns and Cities, great series.

Thanks! My flying time is on hold now. While I added in passenger service traffic to my sim, I completely forgot about those loud and smokey cargo freighters. I am now working on adding in An-12 and Il-76 freighters before I fly again.

Speaking of loud and smokey, while not a cargo hauler, the Tu-134 is both loud and smokey. I downloaded the Tu-134A-3 model from SCS and am currently trying to learn how to fly it. I haven't got it off of the ground yet, just did a taxi test. Problem here is that the manual is in Russian and I know zero Russian, other than nyet. When you load the plane in,it is cold and dark, so you have to go through the startup process. I found an English quick start guide, and managed to get it going, or so I thought, I only had one engine running. With my headphones on, the engine noise is so loud!

Push back 06:40am
Banking right after departure, turning to the south
View from the office breaking trough the clouds
Look theres the sun, Spain must be close
Perfect!!
Feel the power of the RR reversers
Right, off for Tapa's

Quoting MIAspotter (Reply 12):Nice! you are showing us all those unexplored remote Russian towns and Cities, great series.

Thanks! Maybe someday I will fly to some of the European cities posted, but I have so many places that I want to fly to in Russia and the CIS countries first.

Quoting UltimateDelta (Reply 13):There's the sun...about three minutes after takeoff we were already at 10,000 feet

I love the atmosphere in this shot!

After a failed attempt yesterday, I was finally able to fly. I installed some scenery for Tolmachevo Airport (OVB/UNNT) and flew there but FS9 crashed back to desktop at 20 miles out, frustrating. Even more frustrating when it crashed in daylight hours but in the evening, it was OK. Seems that when I installed it, I missed some textures that was causing the crash. So today I flew in my trusty An-148 from KJA to OVB.

Krasnoyarsk's other airport, Cheremshanka Airport (UNKM), is the home base for regional carrier Katekavia and civilian traffic

The other airport, Yemelyanovo Airport (UNKL) is where the main passenger service is...but not today, no pax sercvice here with me at this hour.

On the ramp with me is a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 and a Russian Air Force An-72

A Russian Air Force Beriev A-50, a modified Il-76 for AWACS services, the yellow truck on the left, it actually moves through out the airport

Some bizjets, a couple of Challengers and a Gulfstream 4

A view of the apron

An amazing freeware airport

The scenery for OVB is amazing, simply amazing. One of my favorite freeware airports out there, next to the release of BOS. It was a bit heavy on my frames, I keep my frame rate locked at 24 and at times it dropped to 10, but then againI have an older computer (3ghz PentiumD with 4GB ram and a 512MB Nvidia 8800 card). I am not sure where I am flying next, so I might do some touch and gos here until I decide.

Yesterday I tried to fly a Hughes Airwest DC-9 SJC-BUR, but apparently I forgot to adjust the weight and fuel load and ended up overrunning the runway...So instead of trying again (I might when I get back from DCA, though), I decided to let the Jazz bug bite again and took Juliet Zulu Zulu YYC-YMM:

UltimateDelta, is that a payware CRJ or a freeware one with a merged VC? I know Posky has a CR2 as well as the CR7 and CR9 but have not flown them. I flew their BBJ and hated it, it was like I was driving an Italian sports car as even though I was fully loaded with fuel, it was racing down the runway at over 180k and when I pulled back on the stick, it took off like a F16 fighter jet and had a very steep climb. Only other Posky aircraft I flew before was their B752 and I liked that one.

An American expat from the ORD area living and working in Australia

25 UltimateDelta
: It's the POSKY CRJ with it's default VC, but it has an updated panel.cfg and some other things so the gauges work (but then uses the default CRJ-700

26 csturdiv
: Ah, if I had FSX installed, I could use that, but since I have FS9, I cannot. Since I am still not sure about my next destination, today I flew aroun

27 cpd
: I had their 737-800 for FS2004 - and it was not possible to land on RWY13 at Kai-tak with it, it simply wouldn't bank/turn fast enough. It had extrem

28 330Guy
: I like the shots of the Beech... Thats a great aircraft to fly, If i was rich and had a few of my own planes (in real life ) that would be one of them

29 aerdingus
: Grrrr yeah, very hard to land those POSKY 737s. Nice landings...parallel to the bloody rwy..... Some more from TP A340 LIS - TMS On approach to the i

30 cpd
: Yeah, turn to final approach, 50Nm out. Not accurate at all -never mind what POSKY says about their accuracy.

31 csturdiv
: The AFG King Air 300 is without a doubt my favorite small aircraft to fly. Everytime I fly it, I am amazed that it is freeware, I love the VC that co

32 330Guy
: I'll be honest and say I dont know.. I dont think it is (its labelled Native for FSX) So im guessing for FSX only

33 MIAspotter
: More flaps next time... but we all know she is a bit of a lazy Frenchie girl. Nice! and nice King Air, I downloaded it to do some flights around VQPR

34 aerdingus
: I know..thought I had flaps 3...musta only been 2... but yeah lazy biatches HA! I was terrified to even join those forums.... I can see yer house! Ni

35 gingersnap
: Thanks for all your nice comments guys, means a lot. However, all is settled from here on in so back to simming for the time being Headed down to ZRH

36 phatfarmlines
: You both are aware POSKY had an "easy" configuration if you felt the 73's were too difficult to fly in order to address this issue?

37 cpd
: Rather than offering "easy" or "hard" configurations, why don't they just offer a single configuration called "realistic"? It wasn't difficult, it wa

38 UltimateDelta
: Yeah, but I think it would work with whatever was in the original panel.cfg. I've seen screenshots from FS9 with working screens in the VC, so there